NRE, NRO and FCNR interest taxability
Check whether interest on an Indian non-resident account is exempt or taxable.
Open itMoney leaving an Indian ordinary rupee account passes two gates: an annual ceiling under the exchange-control rules, and a tax certification the bank will not move without. This shows your headroom and lists the paperwork for the leg you are planning.
The remittance
Current income sits outside the annual ceiling. Everything else counts against it.
US$
In United States dollars, which is how the ceiling is expressed.
US$
The total already sent under the ceiling since 1 April.
US$
One million dollars per financial year under the current rules. Editable if it moves.
₹
Used to work out the tax forms, which are driven by rupee amounts.
₹
The aggregate that the tax-form threshold is tested against.
₹
Five lakh rupees under the current rule.
Untick where it is a return of your own capital and no Indian income arises.
A lower or nil deduction certificate, or an order fixing the chargeable sum.
Headroom after this remittance
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Part of Form 15CA —
Within the annual ceiling —
Accountant certificate needed —
Central bank approval needed —
Annual ceiling—
Used so far this year—
Headroom before this remittance—
Amount over the ceiling—
What the bank will ask for
- Enter your figures above and this fills in.
Two gates, and they are not the same gate
The exchange-control ceiling and the tax certification are separate. The ceiling caps how much can leave an ordinary rupee account in a financial year for capital items — sale proceeds, inheritances, the balance of your own funds. Current income is outside it: rent, interest, dividends and pension can be sent without a ceiling once the tax on them is settled.
The tax certification runs on rupee amounts and asks whether the sum is chargeable in India. It applies to every remittance, including one comfortably inside the ceiling, and it is the gate the bank actually enforces at the counter.
Sequence the year, not the payment
Because the ceiling is annual and the certification threshold is an aggregate, both are year-level constraints and both are easy to trip late in the year. A family selling one property and one set of shares in the same twelve months can find the second sale over the ceiling with no warning, because nothing flags it until the bank declines.
The workable approach is to plan the whole year's remittances before the first one: which legs are current income and therefore free of the ceiling, which are capital and count against it, and where the financial year boundary falls relative to the sale dates.
Worked example
A family has already sent 400,000 dollars from sale proceeds this financial year and now wants to send 250,000 more, worth about 2.1 crore rupees.
- Both legs are capital, so both count against the ceiling. Headroom before this one is 600,000 and after it is 350,000.
- The rupee amount is over the certification threshold and the sum is chargeable, so Part C applies and a certificate comes first.
- The bank will also want the exchange-control declaration and evidence of how the property was acquired.
Switch the source to current income and the ceiling stops biting entirely — the certification does not. That is the distinction the two gates draw.
What this calculator assumes
- The annual ceiling is prefilled at one million dollars per financial year, which is the current figure for remittance of assets from an ordinary rupee account. It is editable.
- Current income is treated as outside the ceiling. Whether a particular receipt is current income or capital is a real question, and the bank will ask.
- The tax forms follow the same logic as the standalone checker: chargeability first, then the rupee aggregate, then whether an officer order exists.
- Approval above the ceiling is possible but not automatic, and it is granted case by case rather than as of right.
An estimate, not advice. This is an estimate built from what you typed, not advice on your file. Nothing here reads your documents, checks your treaty article or looks at the year you are actually in. Where the number matters, we agree a fixed fee in writing before any work starts.
Where these figures come from
- current master directions Reserve Bank of India — remittance of assets, master direction
- current guidance India — Form 15CA frequently asked questions
- current rules India — Income-tax Rules, Rule 37BB
Any figure prefilled in the panel above is stated with the year it belongs to and can be changed. Rates and thresholds move; a calculator that asks you for the current one stays right, and one that hides a guess does not.
Files that look like this one
Case study 1
Moving Money Out of India and the Certificates It Needs
A remittance out of India needs its tax position certified before the bank will process it. The file establishes the character of the funds, produces the certification, and keeps the position consistent with the returns already filed.
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Case study 2
A Second Opinion on a Return Already Filed
A cross-border return prepared on one side only is usually right in isolation and wrong in combination. The review checks residence, source and relief in that order, and says plainly whether an amendment is worth making.
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Case study 3
A Certificate Obtained Before the Money Moved
An application for a reduced or nil deduction is made in advance and decided on the computed liability, not on the gross amount. Applying after the payment leaves a refund claim in place of a certificate.
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Case study 4
Paying a Dividend Up to a Foreign Parent
The withholding rate depends on the treaty, on the size of the holding, and on whether the parent is the beneficial owner rather than a conduit. Establishing all three before the payment is what secures the lower rate at source.
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Case study 5
Indian Transfer Pricing Certification With a Hard Deadline
An Indian entity with international related-party transactions needs an accountant's report filed by a date of its own, ahead of the return. The work is reconciling the transactions to the books first, because the report is only as defensible as that reconciliation.
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Case study 6
A Retirement Plan That Grows Tax-Deferred in Only One Country
Cross-border retirement accounts are recognised by treaty, but the deferral usually has to be elected rather than assumed. The engagement checks whether the election was made, makes it where it was missed, and reports the account on whichever side requires it.
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Case study 7
Treaty Rate Refused Because the Paperwork Was Missing
A reduced rate under a treaty is available only where the payer is satisfied the recipient is resident in the treaty country. The certificate and the withholding form are what make the rate available at source instead of recoverable a year later.
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Case study 8
An Assignee Paid at Home and Taxable Away
Where pay stays on the home payroll but the tax arises elsewhere, a shadow run reports the second country's liability without duplicating the payment. Setting it up correctly is what keeps both sides reconcilable.
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The deduction is taken on the sale price, not the gain — which is why an NRI property sale strands cash unless the certificate is applied for before closing.
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